Japanese scientists have successfully created fertile female clones of a male rat, who can have healthy offspring when breeding with the original male rat.

sanitation@lemmy.today · 2 months ago

Japanese scientists have successfully created fertile female clones of a male rat, who can have healthy offspring when breeding with the original male rat.

churrodestroyer@lemmy.zip · 2 months ago

I want to be excited about this but I don’t expect the offspring to carry a lot of genetic diversity. This is highly complicated inbreeding but with even fewer genes than normal.

sanitation@lemmy.today · 2 months ago

Why would they run this experiment anyways?

BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 months ago

Possibly as a way to repopulate nearly endangered species that may not have viable females to reproduce normally?

Grimy@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Northern white rhinoceros have only two females left!

NathanDerWeise@feddit.org · 2 months ago

To prove the cloned offspring is viable/fertile?

Japanese scientists have successfully created fertile female clones of a male rat, who can have healthy offspring when breeding with the original male rat.

Japanese scientists have successfully created fertile female clones of a male rat, who can have healthy offspring when breeding with the original male rat.

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